Why EVERYONE Should Be Playing Journey Mode in Terraria
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
- Journey Mode was added in the Terraria 1.4 update, which has been out for some time now. Yet, journey mode in Terraria is criminally underrated for what it is, despite its many benefits like increased convenience and freedom. With the option to play expert, or even master mode on journey worlds, more people should be playing journey. I argue that a journey world is all you need, unless you're playing a hardcore challenge playthrough. Otherwise, everything you need or want to do can be done in journey worlds.
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As someone who's been playing on almost exclusively master for about 2 years now, the reason I avoid journey is because I can't trust myself to not use the tools to cheat. I know that might make me "weak willed" or whatever, and you could still cheat by using something like builders workshop, but its a lot easier to avoid temptation if I have to download a world and then navigate to a specific item than if I have the power to play god in 2 left clicks.
Same
Exactly this
This is exactly why I play strictly Expert/Master, I just can’t trust myself with duplication X}
this is exactly why i dont play on journey too
I play all of them lmao
I remember playing with a friend on Journey mode, pretty much as soon as 1.4 dropped, and our goal was to duplicate every single item without changing time/weather/spawn rates, and only with evil spread disabled and maxed out difficulty slider.
We actually managed to get so close to completion, we got around 4970 items on the 5031 available at that time!
Problem is that we lost our map due to a pc dying, so our motivation vanished with it, but it still was a super fun experience
You are legends
Me and my brother actually did the same thing! We got to about 4000 items and it's honestly the most fun I've had playing terraria in a while
I’m working on 100%ing it too but Jungle Roses suck ass to get lol, completely halted my progress
You were only 61 items away! Very sad you lost the progress. ):
That is what I am doing right now.
I almost exclusively play journey mode anymore. So much more enjoyable to be able to change everything at any point or be able to spawn in stuff if I don’t feel like mining for chlorophyte for hours on end lol. I feel like once you’ve beaten the game a few times normally, the quality of life stuff is great.
Though I definitely am more of a builder than a fighter, so I prefer being able to just focus on building
once you have beaten the game a few times it would be uncommon to still be short on resources
Yeah same, It just cuts out tons of the annoying grind for resources so you can focus on doing what you actually want to do in the game.
i dont play journey i used to since i didnt care what difficulty i was on i'd just create a world without thinking the difficulty
"I don’t feel like mining for chlorophyte for hours on end lol."
well, one of the strengths of terraria is the grinding of materials. However if you don't like to struggle to get something that's fine, I never manage to play in the Journey mode, it's too easy to try to duplicate materials and I would feel like a coward. I prefer the master mode or the infernum mode of the calamity mod
@@nightcoredark ok tough guy
The fact you can change the spawn rate of mobs and switch to master mode for extra difficult is awesome!
But I think you can’t get the real master experience as you could be tempted by the multiplication system
imo spending a lotta time grinding for materials and whatnot isnt what makes the higher difficulties fun for me- it's the bossfights
but that's why i play modded more often than not anymore
as long as you're havin fun it's fine though
master + 10.00x spawn rate = hell
@@tazerface1742 agree, i mostly play journey and i hate getting swarmed by mobs if my friend changes the spawn rate
I use the dupe toll for building items only, everything else must be gotten legit.
@@grimm2835 I disagree to high hell but honestly there is no right way to play and if you have fun more power to you.
I have ADHD, and the hours and hours of tedious grinding that can happen in this game if you like going for rare items and good modifiers and whatnot really tend to kill the fun for me. So being able to dupe stuff like money and building materials to cut out some of the mindless farming and be able to get to the actual fun parts (building, boss fights, exploring, invasions/solar eclipses, etc.) has really reignited my love for this game honestly. I know I'll probably be immediately dismissed for admitting I dupe money, but Journey Mode can seriously save you a lot of mental energy if you also have ADHD and get extremely bored/stressed when you know you're gonna have to wait for potentially hours to get enough money to reforge your Razorblade Typhoon to Mythical.
Always do feel in any game that the idea of there being a “right difficulty” is rather elitist, I feel like the right difficulty is the one you enjoy most.
Me personally I find master to be my goto, difficulty is just something I value in every game, however that’s not how everyone feels and that is completely okay.
master mode is the right difficulty
Honestly all of you who claim that "journey mode is right" are hypocritical why? You tell us not to tell you to play something more difficult but then resume to tell us to join journey. Master mode is the real mode, playing with settings is like creative mode in minecraft big L.
@@hankagura5355 they literally never said that - idk why you’re mad. Plus, journey mode can easily be more difficult than master mode
@@pastacroissant7685 How so?
@@microwavedpizza the way the difficulty slider works and being able to increase mob spawns - you could play through terraria on 4x difficulty with 10x the spawn rate if you wanted
I wholeheartedly agree, journey mode has so many advantages and lets you shape up the difficulty to your own liking! They only issue is that journey worlds are only accesible to journey mode players and the opposite. You might have cool older worlds that will only be available to play on with the "standard" difficulties. I do understand why that is but it's still worth remembering
You can always change your Character difficult with terrasavr plus and your world difficult with TEdit. Honestly the two best tools for terraria if you play on PC
Well journey mode not even challenging because the god mode for me better using classsic or expert mode when played terraria this is my opinion journey mode just for building or having fun with the terra
@@Oysterrrr hear me out.... just disable the god mode.
TEdit:
@@Pangsit969 People say it like it's not even an option 😅😅
An underrated thing about journey duplication is how much storage it frees up. Instead of hoarding, you can just research. It’s also a way to trash items without completely wasting them.
I no longer have chests and chests of building blocks, banners, paintings I’ll *totally* use one day, etc.
I might play just for this suggestion lol inv is madness
Much like how Minecraft's Project E is one of my favorite storage mods in that game, Terraria's Journey Mode duplication is probably my favorite storage system in this game.
Nice to see someone supporting Journey Mode for once. The QoL mechanics like disabling evil spread are something that often gets overlooked
Yeah. That really should be stopped or slowed down with the defeat of Plantera or maybe all three mech boss
@@Sovek86 Evil spread speed gets halved when plantera is defeated.
@@omaryassien7130 that's the point
i feel recognized with this comment
THANK YOU, I have a life outside gaming (unfortunately) so I do appreciate Journey mode for removing a big part of the grind for materials (and it doesn't feel unfair bc I have to work for duplication first) and the HOURS of the waiting around for progression (that was okay when I was a kid, ahh good times)
I play on Journey's Master difficulty without God-mode or infinite money bc I like the challenge but honestly more people should just let others play however they want without judgment lmao
I myself mainly use God mode for farming and to restore to full health before a boss fight (for the latter, I turn it on to restore to full health, then I turn it back off so I'm not invulnerable during the boss fight)
People who are judgemental are one of the worst kind
definitely going to try journey on my next world, considering the duplication comes after a certain amount of an item is obtained, that doesnt feel cheaty to me, it's not like you skipped progression ,you're just saving time. you could very easily play master mode and dupe for building materials.
i really enjoy building in this game and not having to worry about storing all the paints, walls, tiles and furniture would be such a nice help. time and weather control also seems like a huge boon. i've already clocked 1.9k hours into this game so i think i'll finally tackle a large journey world where i focus on building while playing through progression in master mode.
Gotta say I've been loving Journey Mode, been playing it consistently for like the last 2 months, been building up my Perfect world with many challenges set up for my self. Its going to be a masterpiece when complete
That sounds great!
TLDR: Creative. Just do whatever you want whenever you want. Want a challenge? Make it harder. Want it easy? Make it easy. Just want to build? Go ahead, just build. Want to make a villager torture device to torture all those innocent souls over and over and over again? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. Journey mode is for everyone, those who want a challenge and those who just want to goof off.
i honestly have a journey mode character with a lot of things researched, i use it to test stuff, try out battles before doing them in another world, and to do fun stuff without money limitations since i research coins, that is why journey mode is super useful
Same
I've always seen Journey mode as a sandbox mode where you can do anything you want without issues.
fr there isn’t a challenge
I use it as more as a sandbox than for play through
@@solarss_ You sayin there is no challenge means you completely missed the entire point of the video. No one is forcing you to cheat with the tools given to you, they're just available if you want them. The challenge comes from you selecting your difficulty inside of your Journey Mode world, and playing it your way. Play the game completely normally and use the fun stuff at the end.
@@HiptonismHD Changing the difficulty whenever is cheating.
@@-ClerzZ- Do it after you completed the game then… but who are you hurting “cheating”? It’s singleplayer 🤣
Journey mode has great qol features and you get access to all the difficulties. No idea why people dislike it. If you think some feature is too strong (godmode) then just don't use it.
Agreed, when I can't beat a boss on expert mode, I play my Journey mode char to cheese the game. Makes me feel like a better player. :)
Edit: "When I can't beat a boss on expert mode, I play Journey mode to cheese the game."
Some people were not understanding.
@@ronk4474
Thats... not how it works. Journey characters can only play on journey worlds.
@@ConfusionUwU That... is how it works. I never said it didn't work that way.
@@ronk4474???
@@Lord_Ducck huh?
My brain just doesn’t let me not do things like abuse duplication knowing that it is there. Not to say this wasn’t a great video, keep up the good work. You brought up some great points about journey mode I hadn’t thought about.
I almost exclusively play modded and do a fair bit of building, and Journey mode is a damn lifesaver for me. Not only is every feature you mentioned amplified with all the new stuff, but being able to duplicate certain modded materials (e.g: Blood Orbs, which don't drop nearly enough for the cost to make potions with them) can cut down on so many hours or grinding. My modded playthroughs already take 100+ hours to complete, so even a 5% reduced grind goes a long way.
The long build range and the ability to disable evil spread are my favorite things about journey mode. I hate using purification powder in pre hardmode only to find out that I wasted my time since it just spread over again
just buy a couple hundred dynamite and blow out a hole from the surface to hell to separate the evil and your base
then you can continue playing and deal with the evil whenever you like 👍
Great video! I always use Journey Mode, but only duplicate building materials. That way I can build really nice houses but don't get any advantage in progression
I personally don't like skipping parts in games such as waiting, it's a natural part of the game for me
That's fine. If you don't like skipping the wait, you can ignore the skip option and just wait.
@@OhCrapI_He but then why would he pick a journey world if its the same as normally
@@bluephantom631 There are other features, like God mode, Research and Duplication, and control over weather and enemy spawn rates.
If you don’t want to play Journey mode, that's fine. You can choose anything else.
Though I don't like the game's implication that Journey mode is simply a lower difficulty level when it's so much more than that.
@@OhCrapI_He I think journey mode's bottom in the UI should be placed at the top of other three mode with icon combined 3 rabbit's heads from differant difficuties.
@@9-tailed_Fox814 I was more talking about the difficulty selection when creating the world
I feel like journey mode helps with saving a tremendous amount of time in a playthrough like if you were doing a challenge video and you don't wanna have to wait 8 years to do a time-specific activity but it also shortens the length of each playthrough because of said benefits significantly. The amount of freedom you have in journey mode starts feeling like creative mode after a lil while and I guess thas just not how some people roll
I actually play journey all the time, it’s so good for building and since I love building in terraria, I have a journey world which I use to test out weapons against bosses, and build lots of fun stuff and arenas.
Best part of the difficulty change is that you can increase it to 2.9 for example and have am Expert drops and behavior technically with Master difficult
It's something weird and hard to explain but it's something really good if you want to challenge yourself
Recently got this for Christmas and asked for an ideal mode since I was aware of the Expert Difficulty=Expert Reward thing.
I’m glad I was recommended Journey Mode on Reddit. The only rules I set for myself is
A. Duplicate ONLY for building since grinding for the stuff takes too much time
B. The resources/blocks I get from Duplication are ONLY for construction and nothing more. All the spare wood, stones and stuff? NOT using it for crafting.
C. The Fledgling Wings ONLY go on when I’m building my base.
D. Once I can beat my first boss on Expert. I STAY on expert.
And so on and so forth…
Just so I can limit myself and give myself some challenge.
There should be a new terraria challenge where you race to duplicate every item in the game. Or maybe just one for one video would be cool too. Imagine having to race to get dirt blocks just to get the best time haha
The Dirtiest Block in question:
I personally always use duplication because it removes what is in my opinion (let me make that clear, MY OPINION) the worst part of the game: uneccecary, annoying, or just straight-up boring grinding.
i might play journey just to turn off evil spread because i don't like the anxiety, it's the one thing i dislike about terraria. there are lots of weapons to try before plantera and i want to take my time and feel the progression
I apologise in advance for the rubber bands in my mouth
I love ur vids bro
@@vrpdot and I love yo- I MEAN ZUZUCORN
I didn’t even notice until I went to the comments almost exactly in the middle of the video :)
Just got braces?
I know your pain it's awful
Basically Journey mode is made for people who wanted it, if you don’t want it then I guess it wasn’t for you and is purely optional for the convenience of people who do. Some people like to experiment with things without the need to spend hours grinding. What if I want to see how long it takes to fish through 9999 golden worms
I personally play journey mode, as a refresher after playing the game loop for over 9 years, and it's so worth it. (Saves a lot of time with grinding other things too!)
Even if you use the research and duplication that Journey mode offers, it doesn't feel too cheaty, since you earned it. It just makes grinding for stuff way less annoying.
When I first got terraria I played on journey mode, it was a great introduction to the game for me. I'm playing on normal hardmode for the first time right now and I can say, I would definitely have gotten disinterested if I played non journey at first. It would be so frustrating and enraging while not knowing anything about the game XD
i dont do journey because i never realised i could kill a boss in expert for the drops and then master mode. ill probably use journey from now on
I'm kinda happy I made my second run Journey mode after my first expert clear. I used only the finch staff to make the start less tedious and to dupe enchanted nightcrawlers to make fishing less tedious, but everything else has just been a standard expert run of the don't dig up seed. I think I agree with the sentiment of "don't do this for your first run, but it's great for future playthroughs".
Time control is huge. Might use it after hardmode to get forbidden gear, if there's no sandstorm by the time my other pre-boss projects are done.
I love the journey mode, I have trouble with hand-eye coordination and fighting is a pain, the godmode and mobspawn controls make it a lot easier and fun to play AND build
This has finally inspired me to take on a challenge I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Truly 100% the game. I’m going to get 1 of every single item in terraria and put it into chests just because I can. Before, I didn’t want to do it because of stupid stuff like needing absurd amounts of things like 4 blades of grass (Zenith, True nights edge, nights edge and just having the blade of grass), or needing several worlds for things like Crimson, Corruption, or the different dungeon colours. But now I’m going to do it, and probably have at least 1k hours after it.
Update
Missed the goddamn seasonal stuff and it’s not easy to turn back the clock on Xbox with the game only on Gamepass, not installed.
I do have almost everything else though
One thing I would like to see in Journey mode is just a basic enemy spawner menu. It would work using the bestiary stats and let you summon an enemy if you have killed it a certain amount of times (the same amount that it takes to fill out the enemys bestiary entry)
At first I scoffed at the title, but clearly I didn't know what Journey Mode was actually like either. It actually seems like a very flexible game mode that can be as relaxed as I want. Treating it like a "new game+" with a heap of QoL features seems like fun!
This is a great video. I recently started playing on journey after years on expert then master mode. It's so fun and this vid is a great example as to why. Just play games how you enjoy playing them not how someone else wants you to play them. 😊
When i bought the "actual" Terraria (played on old Gen before) i enjoyed every single second of Journey Mode, so i don't know why everyone apparently hates it.
because its way too easy for most people.
Journey mode is the jack of all trades and master of all of them too.
If you're looking for a more tougher master mode, journey mode has that covered too. Because of how the modes are scaled in journey mode, the master/expert mode bosses have more hp than playing classic master/expert.
I found you! I remember years ago i watched your mage progression guide, and made it to hardmode for the 1st and last time. You rock
i think the aspect of grinding and trying for certain items or bosses makes the game a lot better. it helps you appreciate the game more for a legitimate playthrough, even without duplication
Thanks for making this there's unfortunately a lot of misinformation about things because people refuse to even try new things and keep passing around old outdated information. Like melee being OP despite being brought more in line with other classes, summons being weak despite being quite strong, old ones army being hard to grind when the actual issue is people refuse to use the sentries a core mechanic of the event, and like this video says journey mode.
As someone who has been playing journey mode since it released
I only JUST GOT the doctor bones banner, 250 Hours of my life for one item, it was worth it though
The item Duplication thing is a very nice feature, bacause of the effort you have to put in. It is as you said, that most Items are far too easy to duplicate because the research needs too few items, however at least it is still there. In Dragonquest builders 2, there also was a feature do duplicate things and that was not even in an easy mode. There you also had to finish certain things to get the ability to do that and for building this is a really nice thing, in my opinion.
Amazing video! After I wrap up my current world I will 100% be enjoying a Journey mode world~ I wonder how making things less grindy will translate to the way I build and shape the world overall
I played through journey mode with all the cheats and I actually had a lot of fun being able to increase the spawning rate to find rare items
And not to mention being able to get all the trophies and relics for a giant collection
I love journey mode because I just set it to master or expert and don't use god mode or anything op, because it saves so much time and makes the game bearable when you need that 1 item
I appreciate this video for breaking everything down and explaining it in a simple manner! I’ll definitely give Journey Mode a shot.
Journey Mode it's dope, I like it mainly because the research tool, normally when I play Terraria (unless it's with a mod) I don't do too much building or avoid certain items because the materials are normally annoying to get. But in Journey Mode you can try building with rare blocks and use rarer items, it's really nice and it saves you time.
*Also fun fact:* Master Mode Journey it's (statistically) harder than regular Master Mode, not in general exploration but if I'm not mistaken the boss stats get buffed from the Journey Mode difficult slider more than the normal Master Mode selection when you create a world.
Journey mode is pretty much creative mode but you have to unlock it through progression. It is cool for players who are newer or haven’t played in awhile. It lets you freely explore terraria without everything else in the way. Think of it as a advanced tutorial of sorts
Journey mode is like one of those "No need to rush, have fun your way" game modes.
After playing the game through Medium-core Expert and loving it immensely I play in Journey Mode now because I love being able to build with the items in my item list and I love the enemy difficulty slider/spawn slider.
thanks so much for this vid, earned my like and sub for that useful info. I was also one of those who thought journey is basically easy/crafting mode
Finally after years of using journey mode in his terraria guides he explained why he does it
Fr
@@frogman5586 yes
Whats your discord
Nice you just revealed your discord to the world
@@frogman5586 didn't reveal the code plus idrc I'm gonna delete it anyway tho
I keep telling people this: Journey mode, on an objective level, is arguably the best difficulty simply because it's all other difficulties plus a ton of quality-of-life stuff. And, as every cheat therein is optional, you can just choose not to use its cheats if you don't like them.
I bought a Terraria copy for my little sister because she wanted to play terraria for making buildings and try a mounts mod, I though that if she wanted to enjoy that she may want to play journey mode as I though it was like minecraft's creative mode.
Boy I was wrong, when I saw that you had to find the items for duplication and my sister not knowing a whole lot of the game mechanics made me jump on to help her understand the game. Fast forward I got into the game again and now she is playing Calamity mod with me.
Definetly Journey mode is a mode that everyone who wants a chill out experience withouth leaving out some challenge should try it for once.
My biggest hope on Journey Mode is that i can finally get Vanities i wanted without having to put too much grinds
But that hope is shattered when Journey world cannot be entered with normal characters
I got the 200 fishing quests achievement when it was a grind and first came out. Imagine how fast it would be on a journey playthrough. Easily set up the perfect fishing scenario, skipping time to the next quest, duplicating fish, duplicating potions. And if you don’t normally play journey you won’t be able to keep anything you get from doing it except the achievement you worked for.
even with journey mode it took me 7 hours💀
@@duxkuw8899 7 hours is a whole lot faster than an 80 minimum.
@@zachlewis9751 i wasnt arguing i was saying how long it still takes
I use journey mode for builds. I stopped playing progression in the world after I was discouraged by one of the terrarian community. It felt for them that it's a cheat mode.
They would likely encourage new players to play legendary mode, and likely want them to suffer.
A lot of people forget that games are for fun & that not everyone has the same definition of it.
Oftentimes I find that my fun includes not engaging with game communities for reasons like yours 🤣
People telling you that Journey is for babies and to play Legendary mode clearly have never seen the hell that was JMFTWx10. Sadly the stat scaling was patched and more it's _only_ as hard as Legendary, minus the grinding and with 10 times the enemies.
My favorite part about journey is mainly the challenge of researching every item and how much easier it is to farm mod drops
And the fact i dont have to deforest the whole area if i want wood for a build
I think Journey mode works really well if you want to save time, but personally I prefer doing things my own way in Master mode. I find it more rewarding when you find something else to do in the meantime of waiting for an event.
i prefer master mode
i dont know why i do this to myself
journey mode players are on a whole other level that we expert players cannot comprehend
Journey mode was a great addition for me. I've already completed the game twice, once on classic and once on expert mode, so I wanted something more casual so I can build pretty houses without worrying about the evil biomes constantly spreading or destroying half a biome for resources. Made me want to play the game again.
Hey there, I used to watch you when I was starting out in terraria back in 2021, your guides helped me beat WoF in classic difficulty, I think I had my comment hearted by you.
Now fast foward to this point, I have 300 hours equally on tmod, just finished my first revengeance playthrough and I was using a lot of QoL mods, now I might actully try playing in journey expert w eternity mode and no other mod too! thanks for helping me discover new way of playing terraria :)
Many people (myself included), find that having all those convenient ways to do or get stuff with the click of a button takes away from the joy you get from having done so.
Facts
i mean you could always just not research anything and not use the tools but ya its easier in the normal 3 difficulties
Then don't do it
"Journey Mode isn't just easy, its great because you can cheat and shit!"
But don't want to cheat.
I enjoy the real experience.
@@XYZB0RG You do you.
I like the real adventure where you have to earn your stuff more tho.
In the end of the day, that's just personal preference.
@@XYZB0RG Yeah! People shouldn't be allowed to have fun playing video games, because that isn't the point of them!
I'm surprised more people don't agree with us, considering we have the OBJECTIVELY correct opinion! Anyone that disagrees with us should go back to preschool and learn how to play REAL video games!
@SomeRand0mNerd username speaks wonders. i wonder what goes through your head to get so pissed off about how badly you suck at video games
@@XYZB0RG whatever makes you feel better man
@@XYZB0RG calm down dude
Cool, I may like to try Journey Mode too. This explanatory video was very helpful, gracias 🌱🌞
Omg. The voice of zuzu corn is literally nostalgic to me. The first time playing terraria I needed guidance so I watched zuzu corn and idk it is so refreshing hearing this voice over a few years
It's fine if you like journey mode, but saying "EVERYONE should be playing it" is kinda dumb. Everyone should *consider* playing it, but they should play what they want to play.
To me, everything mentioned in this video is cheating, so I'm fine on my expert or master worlds.
The time and weather constraints you mentioned actually add to the experience in my opinion. A great thing about terraria is that you've always got something to do, so when you're doing something unrelated and stumble across a natural blizzard or sandstorm, you drop what you were doing and start farming that event instead. If you manage to get what you were looking for, it's 100x more rewarding, because the game didn't spoon-feed you the event, you found it on your own and were able to exploit it.
Also, fiddling with the time for a timed boss fight is no different than lowering the difficulty.
Honestly I never thought about Journey Mode in this way. I considered it similar to creative Mode in minecraft with the infinite resources, ability to toggle day/night cycles, enemy spawns,etc. But honestly (at least after watching this video), im glad to have a different outlook on it in terms of at least the Item Duplication requiring multiple of the item itself instead of everything being in your hands at that moment. It still gives you that feeling of progression since you still have to go out of your way to get 'x' rare item to duplicate it. Outside of maybe potions, there isn't too much of a drawback of having infinite of an item at least in this game. Tools don't break, hunger isn't really an issue (unless you play on the respective seed) and blocks are mostly for building.
Genuinely I do appreciate the ability to just have an endless amount of blocks for big building projects (Enemy Farm, Fishing Area,etc. Since I dont like the fact that even though there is a metric ton of sand in my Large World, i'll eventually run out of it or completely fuck up one big area just to have enough snow, Sand, Dungeon Brick, etc)
The few things that I feel do work differently are Ore, the fishing Crates and Herb Bags like you mentioned. I'd figure its more up to the player themselves to figure out weather they do or don't want to duplicate a specific item depending on how much enjoyment they want.
Overall, 10/10 video, The editing is very smooth and you're right to the point with each of the chapters. Will be trying out my next Calamity run-through on Journey rather than just Expert.
Man its been awhile since you uploaded!
I just came here from discord lol, for some reason i honestly agree with you on most of these yet i didnt play journey in my whole life XD.
I like to fight bosses on normal, and once i get better gear i fight them on expert and master to get the expert mode drop. it lets you raise risk to raise reward, and come back to specific challenges when you are ready
you can get any item in the game easily by going into one of those servers with commands to spawn in any item for your character (search for one on youtube)
the command is usually
/i (item name)
you can also look for the item in chests, they respawn after you exit the chest
Probably gonna only play on Journey now. Grinding and panicking gets me a bit worried and i'd like to rematch some bosses on expert but dont wanna grind.
Thanks!
I wish journey mode could be more customizable, like when you start a world or character you could limit what settings you could mess with. Like maybe disabling the ability to use god mode
I personally started playing about a month ago so I find journey mode quite useful due to the fact that duplication helps me to gather A lot of items quickly. Mainly to the fact that I don't know how to build functional farms
I absolutely love Journey Mode. It allows me to save a lot of time while not having a lot of it. When I have more I can always adjust my game so this lets me enjoy it even more.
I had a journey mode world crash and then stop working so i couldn't access it. However a couple months later i could open it again but for some reason it changed to a master mode world. The chests will full of stacks of ores, stars and other hard to get weapons that i could access with non journey characters.
Nowadays, i usually enjoy playing skyblock Master mode maps or Calamity Infernum on singleplayer, but i'm really grateful for Journey Mode existing because this way i can play more playthroughs with my fianceé, she enjoys the game a lot but we can't put many hours in the game and the early pre-hardmode grind bore her to death so with Journey we can reduce the grinding drastically and just get to the fun part quickly (bosses and building).
Journey mode and all it's features were made for players to use, so using them isn't cheating.
Difficulties exist for different gameplay experience. If you want to relax play the lowest, if you seek challenge play the highest.
@@XYZB0RG Do journey mode require you to input secret codes or something like that? It's there when you're choosing difficulties, it's one of the difficulties.
But I guess you're so great of a gamer it's hard to fathom that games could give players creative mode or easy difficulties.
I personally always play it bc I don't like evil spread and hate the angler, but those are about all I use it for. And turning the difficulty way up right before killing a boss so that I get good drops while still playing on classic difficulty. I also used it to kill the golfer bc he's not useful and I wanted a diff NPC. It still took a while to revive the guide that had died beforehand and freed up space for him tho.
I always play journey mode. That's due to my preferred playstyle. I don't like to grind for stuff for too long. The main thing for me is exploring, beating events, fighting bosses and stuff like this
I play on Expert or Master difficulty btw
I recently discovered Journey Mode and love the research feature to basically get Creative mode. It's a nice touch as I can spend time building and adjusting my town. It's also great to quick research more advanced materials and tools.
that sounds fun! im gonna use it after i like a class
I haven't played a single world that wasn't journey for a while, but I have also never played on anything but master difficulty, and this is great because I'm now used to the struggle of master mode while also having the convenience of Journey, being able to spawn the boss when I want doesn't make the fight any easier, it just means I can do the fight. And that is what I love about Journey.
I just started a master mode only (maybe) journey mode, I was struggling beating expert mode as a summoner and had been contemplating doing a journey mode world for a while for a few reasons
1. So I can learn how bosses work and try it and on really hard bosses could change difficulty/god mode till I can learn patterns
2. I think it gives a interesting challenge, like how much easier building is. I already made a huge build and I just started today, and it was fun! It's taken some early grind out and I'm enjoying this playthrough a lot more then the pain that is early ph mode.
Also I don't have to go back and forth when forgetting a potion, buff station, etc because I've already copied it!
Edit: also I wanna improve on building! And I'm hoping this practice, with easier building tools can help. Kind of like practicing in Minecraft creative :)
I've only ever used Journey mode for a ranger playthrough because i could not be bothered grinding ammo, it was also my first attempt at playing expert since before then i always only played normal
I have completed the game a couple of times. Also once I played with 2 complete fresh noob friends. When we completed our first run we did a journey world and just messed around. Journey mode is a great way to experience things and try out new stuff without having to grind for hours. Also you can just try out more stuff more easely. I think you should first beat Terraria normally and when you have completed the game once you can do a Journey world and just mess around. But I do prefer normal over journey. Journey is just to mess around and try stuff. But the real enjoyment still comes from normal worlds. Also I dont trust myself with cheats so if I want to try something I just switch to my journey world and then back to my normal world and do whatever I had learned from journey (if it makes sense)
FINALLY
personally i just play the reg modes for my classic playthroughs
but do journey when im in a big building/experimenting mood
it's my first time getting back into terraria since like 2018 (and I played on mobile LOL)
using journey mode on steam & honestly back in love with the game
I usually play on journey mode for long mods that require lots of grinding such as Calamity, although when I'm playing with friends I turn it off.
I played journey mode on classic difficulty. God i love the disabled infection spread
Seeing journey mode in this light makes me realize how much it does that my QoL mods do and the fact I wouldn't even need half these mods if I just played Journey mode. Seeing how I can play journey mode and expert+ difficulty at the same time I might just give this journey mode a try now
Interesting video, and you make some good points. I always think easier difficulty options are good to cater to more players, but I feel like the intended journey experience is in opposition to the way players traditionally approach a playthrough. That's not a bad thing, but I'd likely never play the whole game on journey.
I recently completed the game on master difficulty and started the journey mode with only 1 objective and 3 rules. Duplicate all items (this means even the rarest ones) with the rules: 1 - Never enable the immortality option, 2 - Always be with enemies on master difficulty (Except if very necessary to get a specific item, but I don't think it's necessary), 3 - Don't use glitches.
Following these 3 rules everything is allowed.
Some may think it's too easy, after all, I can control time, monster rate and duplicate items, which would make it easier to get items like specific golden animals, but if you look at ALL the items that exist in Terraria and the difficulty of having all these items even with these powers, you will see the real challenge of journey mode.